The Divine Hunter - Chapter 576: The Beginning of Everything (1)

[Your shadow is alive.][Feed your shadow, devour souls, level up, gain skills, complete quests, and grow stronger.][Do you wish to view your current stats?]In the magical world of Aetherus, Damon Grey is the weakest student at Aether Academy, relentlessly bullied and ridiculed for his lack of power and defiant personality. Yet, he endures the torment, clinging to his scholarship—the only thing providing him with the funds to keep his sick sister alive.After a brutal attack leaves him near death, Damon encounters a dark viscous entity in the forest that fuses with his shadow, awakening the Living Shadow System. This strange power grants him unimaginable abilities but comes with a grim cost—a relentless hunger for souls and flesh to feed his shadow.Now, with his shadow alive and insatiable, Damon faces a terrible choice: feed it to grow stronger or starve it and die with it.In a world ruled by ruthless nobles, deadly monsters, and power-hungry demons, Damon must decide if his newfound power is a curse or the only way to survive. With the Living Shadow System, his fate is clear: devour or be devoured.

After a near death experience thanks to his own mother, Jake Hollander has an adverse reaction to people, baseball, and family. His feeling of abandonment is slowly lost thanks to his foster family, The Atkins. They take him in and change his mind about everything. He becomes more open, better at baseball, and craves for family. Slowly all wishes are granted.

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**“Ace has always known he was different—rescued by human couples as a baby by the road side.Raised with a strange mark on his chest, uncanny speed, heightened senses, and an instinct he could never explain.But everything comes to a head on his eighteenth birthday when a restless fire awakens deep within him, compelling him into the forest under the light of the full moon.Drawn by an invisible force, Ace’s body trembles with anticipation, and his wolf—silent his entire life—stirs to life for the first time.Then he feels it: an overwhelming presence that fills the air, makes his heart race, and stops him in his tracks.A powerful looking but desperate man emerges from the shadows, Ace’s entire being responds.His chest burns, and the mark he always thought was a birthmark begins to glow on his chest, as if it knows the man standing before him.Kieran’s piercing silver eyes hold a mixture of relief and hunger as he steps closer.'You’re mine,' Kieran murmurs, his voice deep and reverberating with authority and raw desire.Ace doesn’t understand what’s happening, but his body does. Every fiber of his being screams for Kieran, his wolf howling for the connection they were destined to share.When Kieran touches the glowing mark on Ace’s chest, the bond between them explodes into life.Ace feels everything—the undeniable pull, the deep need to belong, and a passion so intense it takes his breath away.The world fades, leaving only Kieran and the primal connection binding them.Kieran's suppressed desires for his mate breaks free from their restrain.He tears their clothes into pieces, pulling Ace closer in his arms as he uncontrollably touches every inch of Ace's body___ feeling the satisfaction he has longed for_ for years.He devours Ace's mouth and lips as he thrust into him , every thrust igniting a hotter flame inside their bodies, they both groan and scream at the connection, at the pleasure that flows throw every vein in their bodies.In that heated moment, Kieran claims Ace, sinking his teeth into his neck to mark him as his own.The bite sends a shockwave through Ace’s body, awakening a hunger and power he never knew he possessed.Their souls collide, binding them together in a bond that is both exhilarating and terrifying.▪▪But as Ace grapples with his newfound identity as a werewolf and the mate of a powerful alpha, he’s thrust into a world of danger, loyalty, and love so overwhelming it threatens to consume him.Will he accept the destiny that ties him to Kieran, or will the weight of the bond shatter them both?”**○○●●○Alpha Kieran had been looking for his mate for nine years, he searched among the she_wolves in his pack and all other packs but never found his expected female mate__, only to find out his mate is a male , something he has forbidden in his pack.No matter how much he didn't want to mate with Ace, the pull was way much uncomfortable to him.What is he going to do now that he has found himself in the situation he had forbade others himself.

In the world of One Punch Man, the seventh S-class hero of the Hero Association, the King Engine King has obtained the super god skill system.

As long as you have reputation, you can extract the skills of the heavens and the world!

DNF’s extreme swordsmanship, the flames of fire in the god of death, the Tensei and Samsara in Hokage, the top three-color domineering in Pirates, the dragon slaying magic in Fairy Tail… Look at the system panel. For the 100 million prestige balance, KING took a discount and chose Stud. “Ding!”

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